strait

ahdinko, kiipeli

ahdas

salmi puhekieltä narrow Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
Emerson

too strait and low our cottage doors

Sweet oil was poured out on thy head

And ran down like cool rain between

The strait close locks it melted in.

Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line

His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,

pedant Pedant and pitiful.

to follow the strait and narrow

some certain edicts and some strait decrees

the straitest sect of our religion

Is not this piece too strait? / No, no, 'tis well.

a strait degree of favour

to make your strait circumstances yet straiter

I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.

The Strait of Gibraltar

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait / To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.

For honour travels in a strait so narrow / Where one but goes abreast.

a dark strait of barren land

to be in dire straits

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.

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Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester